“I think the thing that’s so surprising or charming is that Ben’s got this real kindness in him. He’s very, very sweet and strong. We were coming through the airport; I thought we were going get into trouble coming through customs. There was a woman who was taking her job of telling you to stand behind the line {Laughs} very seriously. You know, a little bit of power can do crazy things {Laughs}. It was kind of horrible; she was treating us as if we were in a concentration camp. *in growling voice* “Get up there!” And he said, “I don’t like to be talked to like this. Can’t you speak more gently?””

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Aug 27 · 280 notes via ·source

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You’d already made a couple of films before you went to RADA…
“I had, but I really wanted to do theatre. As a teenager, that’s what I loved watching most. I didn’t really watch many films and I wasn’t especially interested in them. I loved going to the theatre and I loved watching theatre actors. That was what I wanted to do so it’s been a surprise to me to be involved in making films and finding that I really love it. In the last couple of years I’ve been trying to educate myself about films. I have this American agent and when she came to London, she asked me what films I liked and I couldn’t name anything. She said, ‘You’ve got to educate yourself’ and I took her on her word. Now I really love film.”
What did you educate yourself with? Not Michael Bay movies, I trust…
“No! I love Tarkovsky, I love Bergman. Jane introduced me to Bresson and Cassavetes. And I’m just discovering Jim Jarmusch. There seems to be a lack of daring in some of the films that are being made now and I’m just so intrigued as to how artists like Tarkovsky made their films.” (X)

Aug 20 · 257 notes via ·source

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“I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things. At the moment I’m really interested in photography and photographing on film especially, but they are more like little hobbies for me. The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected. Artists don’t have that; they seem much more exposed to me. I love taking on other people’s words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.”

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4 years ago · 129 notes via ·source

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“I love the stage too much. Now I actually see far more films than I do theatre, but its the place where I think you really learn the most. So many of these great actors constantly dip back into it, even if they primarily concentrate on film. Its a real testing ground for an actor, I hope I never leave it behind.”

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“When he came to do a reading, I opened the door and there was this beautiful, fragile boy; he had that magical quality that people who have written about Keats say he had. He read from the script and instantly made me believe that he was capable of writing that poetry and loving that much.”

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Aug 01 · 125 notes via ·source

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Ben Whishaw on why his gay character resonates with him

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“It was love at first sight,” Ben said. “The experience had nothing to do with my brain. Because it wasn’t a sensible thing to [pursue]—he’s from Australia. He was in England for only 10 days. But it truly gave me an understanding of what love is, because it absolutely overwhelmed me.”

Jul 24 · 144 notes via ·source

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So are you going to keep the beard? Or is the beard going?

I’m undecided. I’m quite enjoying it, but I think that, because it’s been so a part of playing the role and part of the whole experience of being in this play, I think it might have to go, just as a sort of ritual. Yeah, ritual shedding.

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- http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/ben-whishaw-on-brexit-beards-and-life-after-the-crucible-20160708?page=3
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Jul 08 · 41 notes via ·source

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“I feel like we’re married! I feel like I’m gonna really miss her”

- Ben Whishaw talking about Sophie Okonedo. I love them so much ^.^ (via theaoidos)

May 24 · 56 notes via ·source

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“I have this obsession with PJ Harvey, a rock star I’m a complete anorak about. I’ve got every album and I’ve been to every gig and I’d just like to be her. That would be so much fun! I want to stand up there and sing, and just become her. That would be such a buzz.”

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I think he pretty much is her. I mean, look at them.

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May 20 · 89 notes via ·source

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“… and of course there is nothing to be said about Ben Whishaw—except that I have been completely obsessed with his brilliance since I yo-yoed back and forth thrice to the Lucille Lortel Theatre for Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride in 2010.”

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#Ben Whishaw #quote #mention #the pride